“Claims against the state are the first step,” Sylvie Gallage-Alwis, a partner at Signature Litigation in Paris and a specialist in torts, told Law.com International.
“First, you go after the regulations, [saying] they were not robust enough, or didn’t meet the standards so the population was put at risk,” she said. ”Then you go after the companies.”
Sylvie is both an Avocat à la Cour in France and a Solicitor in England & Wales. She is specialised in all cutting-edge complex disputes linked to products, namely product liability, product safety, toxic tort, mass litigation/class action, regulatory compliance, and environment. She is involved in several very high-profile French industrial disaster pending cases.